Balley Technologies has just announced that the winner of their 2011 Great Woman of Gaming “Rising Star” award is Kimberly Cohn. Cohn was promoted to Director of Game Development in 2010. The annual award spotlights what are considered to be the brightest women within the gaming industry from around the…
Research conducted by the Boston College Center for Work & Family shows that it is becoming more and more common for the roles of women and men to become reversed. The report, entitled “The New Dad: Right At Home” shows that more women are entering the workforce as the primary…
Ross-Simons has just announced that it has hired famed journalist Deborah Norville to be the star of their new Jewelry Fashion Series. Norville’s job will be to show shoppers how to utilize trendy mix-and-match jewelry to accessorize. Norville is best known as the anchor of “Inside Edition”, which is a…
The San Fransisco Business Times has spotlighted Lori Varlas as being one of their “Most Influential Women In Business”. Varlas is the Chief Financial Officer for Central Garden & Pet Company. Central’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bill Brown, released a statement about the award: “Congratulations to Lori for being…
Erst & Young LLP has announced the Florida winner of the 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year award. Rhonda Shear, who is the CEO of Shear Enterprises, received the award for her contribution in the Retail and Consumer Products category. Shear Enterprises, which Shears started when she was 46, is the…
On June 2, 2012, Old Dominion University was the site of the Fourth Annual Hampton Roads Conference for Girls and Young Women. The event was sponsored by a joint effort from the Community Development Corporation and Old Dominion University. The purpose of the event is to encourage girls and young…
Marketing Maven Public relations, a PR firm located in Los Angeles, has just been given the #18 spot in the top 20 Largest Women-Owned Businesses. The list is compiled out of businesses in the North West Region of Los Angeles. Rankings were made by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal…
In the latest step of an impressive career, U.S. Air Force Col. Jeannie Leavitt has become the first female to be named as a Wing Commander in Air Force history. She will take command of the 4th Combat Fighter Wing located at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.…
The gender imbalance that plagues the technology industry is being blamed on one simple principle: a lack of female role models. Today, as in years past, the top individuals identified within the technology industry continue to be men. One ongoing problem is that the majority of interest in this field…
According to a new study conducted by the Pew Economic Mobility Project, divorced women are doing better financially than are divorced men. And the trend seems to be continuously improving. This is a dramatic change from history which has always seen men coming out better financially than women. Why are…
